“Wo to All Who Pervert the Right Way of the Lord”

Monte S. Nyman

Nephi is quoting the Lord in all three of these verses, but he does not give the source. It is both a warning (vv. 15–16) and a plea for the sinners to repent (v. 17). When a people are “fully ripe in iniquity” (v. 16), then comes “the fullness of the wrath of God,” and he “destroyeth the nations of the wicked” (1 Nephi 17:35, 37).

Book of Mormon Commentary: I Nephi Wrote This Record

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